The station is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, and maintains offices in New London and a transmitter on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut.
It was owned by C&S Broadcasting with majority owner Neil Denenberg and ran a low-budget general entertainment format.
In 1990, the station also began to acquire programming that WTXX (channel 20, now WCCT-TV) chose not to renew.
The rights to its programming were acquired by LIN Television, which placed those shows on WTVU (channel 59, now WCTX).
From 2001 until 2005, WHPX re-aired newscasts produced by NBC owned-and-operated station WVIT (channel 30).